Wood is recruiting for a Lead Buyer to join its UAE Business Unit focusing on delivery of specific category management initiatives across the business unit for a Major Onshore Brownfield Project in Dubai, UAE.
This role is a full-time office-based role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirement.
What makes you remarkable?At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected:Educated to ISCED Level 6 (Bachelor Degree or Equivalent) in business related discipline, ideally supply chain or procurement, CIPS qualified or industry equivalent.
Knowledge, skills and experience:- Minimum 7 years’ SC experience in a Category specialist role demonstrating results
- Category management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supply Chain Principles and techniques
- Managing the full category process for Direct or Indirect categories
- International procurement, working and/or living abroad
- Managing key suppliers to develop commercially successful, long-term contracts which effectively mitigate risk to the business
- Identifying opportunities within the Indirect Categories for Procurement to add value through cost savings or improvement of quality and service
- Delivering value and margin improvement through Supply Chain savings and performance improvement
- Dispute and claim resolution
- Supplier Relationship Management including building relationships at a senior level
- Process improvement
- Leading complex tender activities through to completion
- Negotiation of multimillion contracts
- Mobilisation of cross border / global agreements desirable
- Excellent communication skills, written, oral and presentation
- Strategic thinker contributing to the management and improvement of the overall function.
- Planning and organisational skills.
- Enthusiastic proactive attitude
- Well-developed commercial and business acumen
- Flexibility to travel frequently (global)
- Work as part of a team
- Develop strategy and plans and drive to successful conclusion
- Identify efficiency, process and tool improvement opportunities and successful drive through change
- Develop effective and sustainable category strategies
- Spend Analysis and decision making
- Negotiate global agreement
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